Episode 13: Honored to Partner with Ascot Supply Corporation

Hi, I'm JJ Bock, Director of Operations for Rubber-Inc. Welcome to another episode of In Stock With Bock. You've seen it on our site, you've heard us mention it, even spotted it on our catalog. Rubber-Inc is a founding member of Ascot Supply Corporation. But what does that mean for you? We're here in Noonan, Georgia to give you a behind the scenes look at how this important partnership helps us stay in stock for you. Hey Mark. JJ. How are you today? How are you doing? Good. Nice to see you. Nice to see you as well. Wasn't expecting you today. Was it not today?

No, but you're welcome. Anytime. I appreciate it. I appreciate it. Anytime. Today we're showing our customers a little bit of behind the scenes of Ascot Supply Corporation. What is Ascot's role with Rubber-Inc? Excellent. Well, Ascot was founded back in 1968 by four companies, one of them being Rubber-Inc, a founding member. They were combining their buying power in the tire shop supply and equipment industry to be more competitive. However, we're still doing all that right now, creating better buying programs for our members. Our real strength is the comprehensive amount of

inventory we have in here. All the key product categories, write down all the ancillary items. Can we get a quick tour of some of these items you're discussing? JJ, I would love to take you around. Fantastic. You lead the way.

All the popular ones, whether it's valve stems, whether it's just the kits for the aluminum valves, we have everything. The key thing to talk about when it comes to the members too is our position is to keep you in stock position. Right. So that's why we have all this inventory here. We do not run out, nor do we get any hiccups from supply chain issues. it's fantastic just keeps going and going and going don't want to go in and going man

everything you want you know very popular dual steel caps by the pallets by the pallets individual we have case quantities whatever you need and besides our own brand that we'll we'll come up with we do sock all the major labels many of your customers want other thing us all ran chicago nomadic we have that as well as our own ascot brand fantastic so the part suppliers that we partner with you carry those brands as well yes Yes. So we partnered with Autel, the Ask Up by Autel sensor, we have it both in the rubber snap in and also the metal stem, and we also use this product, we combine it with a lot

of promotions. Oh, like a kit or a bundle? A bundle, yeah, thank you. Fantastic. Yeah. And wheel weights, right? We got the adhesive weights here, and whether it's a box or in a roll, it's going to be part of the Bock walk. Yes. Yeah. So I told Kim about this, the first product ever to come into the Ascot Warehouse to ship to members was sockets. From sockets to all this, the warehouse is quite large. We have 24 people on hand as part of the Ascot team, pulling orders, behind the scenes, all making this a great success for all our members. JJ, I just wanted to show you a small sample of what we saw in the warehouse.

These are some of our Ascot branded tools. They are high quality and price conscious for our members. That's fantastic. What's up with the different color scheme? Glad you asked, JJ. Basically, this was our original, the blue and yellow box with our original private label. We're transitioning all our Ascot branded tools to a gray and maroon box with the tools being branded Ascot inside as well. Awesome. Does the Ascot brand compete with our current partner manufacturers? It's not meant to compete with our current suppliers and vendors that we work with. Basically, it's just another option to offer your customers.

Fantastic. I like the wide array of products for our customers. I can't thank you enough for all the behind the scenes access. Ascot is an incredible partner to us at Rubber-Inc. Thank you all for everything you do each and every day. Thank you. Thank you. I'm JJ Bock, direct. At how... Oh, okay. Be yours.

Yes they are. So I can point up like there. And I can point over there and be like, oh look at that. I can point over there and be like, oh look at that. From sockets, to all this. all this. Welcome to our kingdom JJ. You're going to have to pull that out. You're going to help with that part, right? That's hilarious. Yeah. Thank you. That's the blue. I knew that. Did you already eat lunch? Okay. I didn't. I thought he was going to provide lunch. I had a lunch break last Tuesday. All right. Put them in the blue. Mark, what do we have here? Mark, what do we have here?

It's our... Mark, what do we have here? Mark, what do we have here? Mark, what do we have here? I'm sorry. Throw me up. This is what we have here, J.J. He's good.